PASS - Influence on Personal AcceSS to education for people with migrant background
The project aims on defining ways to improve the access to education for people with migrant background through individual strengthening. It works bottom up through a biographical approach to identify success and failure experiences. How do gender and migrant background interact with the access to the VET-System as well as to informal learning processes in the receiving society? The suppositions of the project partners – drawn from their professional context – will be questioned by experiential knowledge of people concerned.
The project will focus on the repertoire of action guides of men and women with migrant background, in order to provide a list of measures for individual support and to contribute, indirectly, to the quality improvement of education provisions. The personal supply of action is shaped by factors like migration experience, gender, cultural background, family as well as political and economical boundary conditions in the receiving society. In the spirit of Gender Mainstreaming we aspire to find out which ways do specifically support female and male migrants. In view of all influencing factors every person has to be considered as a unique human being with a unique and unrepeatable life experience. Support has to consider the unique situation of each person.
The Learning partnership is composed by two Italian non profit organisations: Speha Fresia, a cooperative company dealing with research, training and local development, and the Intercultural Association Griot, promoting intercultural and education activities; two Austrian organisations: the FBI-Centre, a centre for social-scientific research, education and information and the Haus der Begegnung, an intercultural and education centre; one Folk High School of the North of Germany, seated in Leer, one University from Vilnius, Lithuania, the Mykolas Romeris University (Faculty of Social Policy) and one Turkish non profit organisation, Hydra dealing with international project and consulting. Seven partners, five EU Member States and two experts coming from Germany (Ms. Martina Kissing of Wuppertal Folk High School) and from Malta (Mr. Mario Azzopardi of Malta Drama Centre).